Note 257 — Introductory material (continued 6)

[The following is found as a conclusion of the foregoing chant, contributed by S. M. Kamakau to the Kuokoa in May, 1868, and is the “unwritten portion” referred to by C. J. Lyons in his published translation (with Judge L. Andrews) of the Song of Kualii.257 Fornander refers to it in his Polynesian Race, Vol. II, p. 284, but does not append it in his republication of the song, with a somewhat different interpretation as an Appendix in said Volume II, from the fact that he questioned its genuineness. Not doubting his judgment in the case, it serves here as a further tribute, at a later period possibly, to the name and fame of Kualii by a historian of his race.—Ed.]